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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 11
West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual
Page 11 Chapter 11 Benefit Repayment
discouraged from sending payments through the mail. If he does so, however, it is accepted. All such payments are forwarded to the Financial Clerk. The Financial Clerk is responsible for collecting all repayments in cash. If payments are received by mail, they are forwarded to the Financial Clerk, who is responsible for the record- keeping and forwarding the payment to the State Office. Upon notification from the Financial Clerk by the DF-25 form, the Repayment Officer posts the payments to the eligibility system. With the implementation of EBT, benefits in an EBT account may be used to repay a SNAP claim. When the client wishes to repay in this manner, he is referred to a Supervisor or RI who accomplishes the repayment by use of the EBT administrative function. ➢ Use of EBT SNAP Account Benefits • When there has been an unused benefit in a SNAP EBT account 229 days from the date the benefit was issued, a notice is generated to the client, advising if they do not take action within 13 days and a claim is present, the benefit from this benefit month will be applied to the claim. An alert will be sent to the Worker; however, no action is required by the worker. An alert will also be sent to IFM. This will give them an opportunity to act on an open claim for a case. • Expungement – When there has been an unused benefit in a SNAP EBT account for a period of 274 days from the date the benefit was issued, a notice is generated to the client, advising the benefits have been expunged and are no longer available. The notice will also advise they may have other benefit months remaining. The client is also encouraged to make monthly transactions on remaining benefits. There will be an immediate expungement when it has been determined the SNAP Assistant Group is deceased and when the worker has obtained independent verification of the death(s). An alert will be sent to the Worker; however, no action is required by the Worker at that time. IPV Errors 11.2.6.A.3 Current Recipients The current benefit entitlement, after the disqualified member(s) has been removed from the AG, is reduced by 20% of the entitlement or $20, whichever is greater. The reduction is based on the entitlement amount prior to the removal of the disqualified member.